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5 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Lift \Lift\, n. 1. Act of lifting; also that which is lifted. 2. The space or distance through which anything is lifted; as a long lift. --Bacon. 3. Help; assistance, as by lifting; as to give one a lift in a wagon. [Colloq.] The goat gives the fox a lift. --L'Estrange. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Lift \Lift\ (l[i^]ft), n. [AS. lyft air. See {Loft}.] The sky; the atmosphere; the firmament. [Obs. or Scot.] From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Lift \Lift\ (l[i^]ft), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Lifted}; p. pr & vb n. {Lifting}.] [Icel. lypta, fr lopt air; akin to Sw lyfta to lift, Dan. l["o]fte, G. l["u]ften; -- prop., to raise into the air. See {Loft}, and cf 1st {Lift}.] 1. To move in a direction opposite to that of gravitation; to raise; to elevate; to bring up from a lower place to a higher; to upheave; sometimes implying a continued support or holding in the higher place -- said of material things as to lift the foot or the hand; to lift a chair or a burden. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Lift \Lift\ (l[i^]ft), v. i. 1. To try to raise something to exert the strength for raising or bearing. Strained by lifting at a weight too heavy. --Locke. 2. To rise; to become or appear raised or elevated; as the fog lifts; the land lifts to a ship approaching it 3. [See {Lift}, v. t., 5.] To live by theft. --Spenser. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: lift n 1: the act of giving temporary assistance 2: the event of something being raised [syn: {elevation}, {raising}] 3: a wave that lifts the surface of the water or ground [syn: {rise}] 4: carries skiers up a hill [syn: {ski tow}, {ski lift}] 5: a platform or cage that is raised and lowered mechanically in a vertical shaft in order to move people from one floor to another in a building [syn: {elevator}] 6: a ride in a car "he gave me a lift home" 7: the act of raising something "he responded with a lift of his eyebrow"; "fireman learn several different raises for getting ladders up" [syn: {raise}, {heave}, {elevation}] v 1: raise from a lower to a higher position; "Raise your hands"; "Lift a load" [syn: {raise}, {elevate}, {get up}, {bring up}] [ant: {lower}] 2: take hold of something and move it to a different location; "lift the box onto the table" 3: move upwards; "lift one's eyes" [syn: {raise}] 4: move upward; "The fog lifted"; "The smoke arose from the forest fire" [syn: {rise}, {arise}, {move up}, {go up}, {come up}] [ant: {descend}] 5: make audible; "He lifted a war whoop" 6: annul by recalling or rescinding; "He revoked the ban on smoking"; "lift an embargo" [syn: {revoke}, {annul}, {countermand}, {reverse}, {repeal}, {overturn}, {rescind}] 7: make off with belongings of others [syn: {pilfer}, {cabbage}, {purloin}, {pinch}, {abstract}, {snarf}, {swipe}, {hook}, {sneak}, {filch}, {nobble}] 8: raise or haul up with or as if with mechanical help; "hoist the bicycle onto the roof of the car" [syn: {hoist}, {wind}] 9: invigorate or heighten; "lift my spirits", "lift his ego" [syn: {raise}] 10: raise in rank or condition: "The new law lifted many people from poverty" [syn: {raise}, {elevate}] 11: take off or away by decreasing; "lift the pressure" 12: rise up "The building rose before them" [syn: {rise}, {rear}] 13: pay off as of mortgages 14: take without referencing from someone else's writing or speech; of intellectual property [syn: {plagiarize}, {plagiarise}] 15: take illegally, as of cattle [syn: {rustle}] 16: fly people or goods to or from places not accessible by other means: "Food is airlifted into Bosnia" [syn: {airlift}] 17: take out of the ground, of root crops; "lift potatoes" 18: call to stop the hunt or to retire, as of hunting dogs 19: rise upward, as from pressure or moisture; "The floor is lifting slowly" 20: put an end to as of a siege or a blockade; "lift a ban"; "raise a siege" [syn: {raise}] 21: remove by scalping, of hair 22: remove from a seedbed or form a nursery, as of bulbs 23: remove from a surface, of fingerprints 24: perform cosmetic surgery on someone's face [syn: {face-lift}]
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